There is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York times best-selling author of American pastoral, the human stain, and the plot against America. He has won a pulitzer prize, two natio...There is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York times best-selling author of American pastoral, the human stain, and the plot against America. He has won a pulitzer prize, two national book awards, two national book critics circle awards, two pen/faulkner awards, and numerous other distinctions.